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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
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I read this book for the 2024 PopSugar challenge and am so glad I did. Hellen details her life with such a positive frame of mind. It's quite remarkable how she was able to be so upbeat and positive considering she was constantly having to prove herself to others. I loved her appreciation of reading and how it provided her a way to widen her world. "The Story of My Life" gave praise to the people and friendships in Keller's life that helped create a life she absolutely loved.
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Helen Keller’s autobiography proves what a remarkable woman she was, and what a life she lived! I read this one after I was shocked by several of my high school students. It seems TikTok has them convinced that she a) didn’t exist at all or b) she really wasn’t blind or deaf. I am preparing a unit about her for my English class because this needs to be remedied.
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Minor: Ableism, Colonisation
That was beautiful. My love for Helen Keller has grown significantly.
It’s very difficult for me to wrap my brain around how Helen Keller was able to read, speak, write, and learn many languages as a blind and deaf person in the late 1800s. I struggle with learning foreign languages now and I am not blind or deaf. Perhaps she had a natural gift for languages?
I also wonder what would have happened to her if she had not been born into this particular family, who seemed well connected. I’m sure she was not the only person rendered blind and/or deaf due to illness during this time.
Her story is remarkable and so is Anne Sullivan’s. It took both of them to achieve such remarkable feats.
I also wonder what would have happened to her if she had not been born into this particular family, who seemed well connected. I’m sure she was not the only person rendered blind and/or deaf due to illness during this time.
Her story is remarkable and so is Anne Sullivan’s. It took both of them to achieve such remarkable feats.
"Thus it is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways, they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation."
3.5 stars! Though perhaps I should round it up to 4 just to thank the title for getting that OneDirection song stuck in my head every time I see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TE_Ys4iwM
Overall, Helen Keller is a badass. She writes with a maturity far beyond her years (She was only in her early 20s when she wrote this, I believe), and kind of makes me feel like a loser because I have no disabilities and she did far more with her life than I have done with mine. Many would've have thrown in the hat and said life isn't worth living, but she continued to find joy in the things she could partake of, and found ways to achieve her goals despite her limitations.
The last few chapters were quite boring, as she described all of her coursework, which is why this is only 3.5 stars for me.
3.5 stars! Though perhaps I should round it up to 4 just to thank the title for getting that OneDirection song stuck in my head every time I see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TE_Ys4iwM
Overall, Helen Keller is a badass. She writes with a maturity far beyond her years (She was only in her early 20s when she wrote this, I believe), and kind of makes me feel like a loser because I have no disabilities and she did far more with her life than I have done with mine. Many would've have thrown in the hat and said life isn't worth living, but she continued to find joy in the things she could partake of, and found ways to achieve her goals despite her limitations.
The last few chapters were quite boring, as she described all of her coursework, which is why this is only 3.5 stars for me.
